tonkin gulf incidents, 1964

Reconstructs the events of the night of August 4, 1964 when U.S. Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin reported they were under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, arguing that there really was no North Vietnamese attack, and looking at the resulting escalation of American involvement in the war.

Chronicles the events which occurred on the second and fourth days of August 1964 and explains how those events drew the United States into the Vietnam War.